Undergraduate

For students starting at Concordia as of September 2012, we have introduced a new set of requirements for the Major PHIL and the Honours PHIL programmes.  The new programmes offer a greater number of choices to our students  This website lists the new requirements.  All students who started the Major PHIL and Honours PHIL programmes prior to the 2012-2013 academic year should follow the requirements as listed in section 31.220 of the Undergraduate Calendar of the year in which they entered the programme.

Whether you wish to pursue a career in teaching and research or not, an undergraduate degree in philosophy is the ideal starting point to go into any number of professions or fields of graduate study, including law, government, medicine, and business.

Normally, an Honours degree in philosophy is a necessary condition to satisfy if one wishes to do a graduate degree in philosophy.

For those students who do not aspire to do graduate work in philosophy, yet have a substantial interest in the discipline, there is the Major in philosophy. The Major is designed to provide a sound, basic understanding of the major topics in, and historical periods of, philosophy with less stringent requirements than the Honours program.

A useful way to group the main divisions in philosophy is as follows: epistemology and metaphysics; logic, semantics, and philosophy of science; ethics and value theory; and history of philosophy. A complete training in philosophy requires some training in each of these four areas. That is why all Majors and Honours students must do required program courses in ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, logic, ancient and modern philosophy.

A Minor in philosophy entails requirements similar to the Major's but scaled down, thus giving focus to elective courses.

For more information on our undergraduate programs, please contact the Undergraduate Academic Advisor.

The Students of Philosophy Association , SoPhiA, represents undergraduate philosophy student interests at faculty meetings and provides useful information on events related to philosophy at Concordia and in the Montreal area.

The department also encourages students to participate in its exchange program with the Philosophy Department at the University of Münster (Germany). Each year a small number of philosophy majors have the chance to study abroad for a maximum of two terms. Credits that are acquired during the stay are transfered to students' programs of study. To receive additional information on the exchange, send a brief email to our Student Exchange Coordinator.